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There is a good chance she used an explicit statement like that to get herself dismissed from the jury pool.
by harikb 7y ago
There is a good chance she used an explicit statement like that to get herself dismissed from the jury pool.
- andrewnicolalde 7y agoAnd whoever was in charge of ensuring an unbiased jury was willing to take that chance?
- rolltiide 7y agoin that case they probably found it endearing
- user5994461 7y agoThey pick jurors trying to guess who will go their way or help rally other jurors. Nothing to do with removing bias, if anything they want bias the direction that suits them.
- Thorrez 7y agoEach side has no goal to remove bias, but I think the overall process does. By allowing each side to exclude some people, the most biased outliers will likely be removed, and more middle of the road people will remain.
- thenewewb 7y agoAlso a good chance OP is lying on the Internet.
- fenomas 7y agoAssume good faith please.
- akimball 7y agoSaid every abuser and con artist ever. Yours is often a good reaction, which corrects for pervasive and insidious distorting cynical biases, but you should also be alert to it's hazards.
- Chris_Chambers 7y agoGood point. Let’s all downvote you because this is reddit now.
- leetcrew 7y agoI believe them. some people will say anything to get out of jury duty. they don't seem to understand that perjury is a serious offense. the last time I was called, I heard one woman loudly announce "I'm gonna stand up for everything!" during voir dire.
- gnicholas 7y agoPerjury requires that the person be under oath, which potential jurors (in my experience) are not. Also, it’s pretty much impossible for a prosecutor to prove that you are lying about what your prejudices and beliefs are. Prosecutors know this and wouldn’t waste their time trying.
- user5994461 7y agoWell, it can't be that difficult to find out whether the worked as a bank teller 20 years or not.
- leetcrew 7y agoyou're right, it's not perjury. it's contempt of court. it's perjury if you lie on the mail questionnaire, which is what I was thinking of.
- gamblor956 7y agoI believe that the woman may have made those statements. I don't believe that a judge would have let her remain part of the jury pool after having made those statements. That's the type of activity that results in a judge being forcibly retired.
- jjeaff 7y agoAlso, there really are a lot of people that are just that unapologetically racist. I see a few people commenting that they don't think that actually happened. Ask just about any brown person if they believe that would actually happen today. I bet most would say that a comment like that isn't surprising at all.
- dang 7y agoPersonal attacks will get you banned here. Would you mind reviewing the rules and sticking to them on HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- RandomBacon 7y agoPerhaps the lawyer thought the blatent racism would shock the other jurors and make them more likely to "overcorrect"/compensate and be lienent or find the defendant not guilty (IDK facts of the case).